Judaism talk and workshop in NYC

This one costs, sorry. I’ll be doing some free ones in the spring. (And I’ll be looking for places around the country to do them, so if you have a place that might be able to host an event and find an interested crowd, let me know.)

Judaism was created for change; it is a tradition of inquiry and modification. Douglas Rushkoff calls it an “open source religion,” in which anything and everything is up for discussion. Through lecture, conversation, and break-out groups, we will consider the greatest challenges to Judaism and Jewishness today and determine the kinds of questions that need to be answered in order to confront these challenges.

You’re invited to engage with Judaism as its next generation of creators and partake of the religion’s oldest tradition: reinvention. Rushkoff is a widely published writer, commentator and documentarian whose latest work, Nothing Sacred: The Truth About Judaism, will be published in the spring.

Tuesday, Oct 15

7:00 PM

Call 646-505-5708 to register.

$10 members/$15 non-members

Registration code: RUSH/JJLF3

Location: The JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Ave. at 76th St. (Program room assignments will be available at the JCC Customer Service Desk, in the lobby of the Samuel Priest Rose Building.)

Douglas Rushkoff is the author of Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity, as well as a dozen other bestselling books on media, technology, and culture, including Present Shock, Program or Be Programmed, Media Virus, Life Inc and the novel Ecstasy Club. He is Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens. He wrote the graphic novels Aleister & Adolf, Testament, and A.D.D., and made the television documentaries Generation Like, Merchants of Cool, The Persuaders, and Digital Nation. He lives in New York, and lectures about media, society, and economics around the world.